Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Trump’s Company is Getting $175 Million Annually in Previously Undisclosed Rent


Forbes reporters tracked down Trump’s many commercial tenants. Among them: a state-owned Chinese bank.

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC and Eric Umansky, ProPublica

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Forbes reporters figured out that the president’s company pulls in an estimated $175 million in commercial rent annually. One of Trump’s major tenants: a state-owned Chinese bank.

In this bonus episode of our “Trump, Inc.” podcast, Forbes’ Dan Alexander talks to WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein about how he dug through financial documents and even measured square footage to detail the little-known, big payments to the president's company.

Click here to listen to the report. 

Source: ProPublica

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